translated from Spanish: Companies that did not stop with COVID-19 patients will link

The inspections carried out by the Secretariat of Labour will identify companies that have not yet decided not to stop and with the number of workers’ membership in imSS, the federal government may establish a relationship between the contempt of these businesses to the health measures issued and the possible contagions among their workers, which could lead to various sanctions.
This was explained at a press conference by undersecretary for Health Prevention and Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, who also noted that this correlation will allow a likely harm to the health and physical integrity of workers but also an economic impact on Social Security.
In addition, he stressed that the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (Cofepris) has “the legal elements necessary to conduct inspections and identify alleged violations of health protection that may also constitute crime and creditors of sanctions of various nature from economic to closure”.
The official said that just as all the public policies being implemented have scientific and mathematical support, economic modulation study planning is also ongoing to identify both the factors that have contributed to further damage to the economy and a possible recovery.
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Lopez-Gatell emphasized that there is still resistance from companies that refuse to stop, even without having an essential activity, “and this reveals an indisposition of those who have the possibility of making decisions, from shareholder meetings to managers, which makes them all partners not to abide by the mandatory provisions to protect the most important good that is people’s lives.”
That’s why, he added, “is that next Monday we’re going to present who’s who in the fulfillment of the health measures, those that protect us all from the biggest epidemic in the last 100 years, with catastrophic consequences for health, life and the economy.”
What is going to be done, he said, “is to go deep into who are the companies that are attacking these three elements, because if they do not stop they are slowing down the process of controlling the epidemic.”
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Original source in Spanish